[Coco] Sugestions for new NitrOS-9 versions

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Apr 2, 2014 11:50 AM, "Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What would you change on NitrOS-9 for the next versions ?

Multiple execution directories would be handy.

File name globbing would be very nice.  I think the standard utils (copy,
dir, etc) use the os9 syscall to resolve a path that returns a single
result, so not sure how practical it could be.  Maybe a new syscall that
takes an additional argument which is the address of a routine to be
executed once per result, or something similar.  Changing utils to use that
kind of thing would be somewhat easy.

RBF caching of sector 0 (read caching/write through) would give a decent
performance improvement.  I did some experiments a while back.. IIRC you
can cache the stuff that gets constantly read using about 64 bytes so it
doesn't even need a whole sector worth of ram.  OTOH there may be a better
solution to all those reads, caching individual disk parameters or whatever
RBF is actually reading all the time.  Maybe its just concerned that the
disk has changed?  Never got that far.

I'm assuming there will be support for the new 64 bit 63009 CPU.